The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) on Netflix
Win Berry and his wife raise five children, John, Franny, Frank, Lilly and Egg. The family opens the Hotel New Hampshire, and a friend's letter invites them to Vienna.
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Plot summary
The Berry family lives in 1950s New England, where Win and his wife raise five children, John, Franny, Frank, Lilly and Egg. Frank is bullied at the prep school by football captain Chip Dove, and Franny is raped by Dove and his friends before Junior Jones and other football players rescue her. The family's troubles at the school lead Win to open a hotel instead, the Hotel New Hampshire, near the school John, Franny and Frank go to. A letter from their friend Freud invites the Berrys to Vienna to run his gasthaus, and the family moves to Europe and gives that house the same name.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The male star of The Hotel New Hampshire was originally Tim Hutton; he pulled out of the part, and Rob Lowe was cast instead.
- Rob Lowe has said that Matthew Modine accidentally broke his nose with a steel-toed boot in a stunt gone wrong, and that the director was so angry at Modine that he had Modine's voice dubbed in post-production by someone else.
- The rock band Queen was asked by the producers to compose an entire soundtrack for the film, but they later changed their minds in favour of classical music; Freddie Mercury had already composed “Keep Passing the Open Windows”, so it ended up on Queen's 1984 album The Works.
